Django-constance

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* **BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE** Dropped support for Python 2.6
The supported versions are 2.7, 3.3 (on Django < 1.9) and 3.4.

* **BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE** Dropped support for Django 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6
The supported versions are 1.7, 1.8 and the upcoming 1.9 release

* Added compatibility to Django 1.8 and 1.9.

* Added Spanish and Chinese (``zh_CN``) translations.

* Added :class:`override_config` decorator/context manager for easy
:doc:`testing <testing>`.

* Added the ability to use linebreaks in config value help texts.

* Various testing fixes.

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* Fixed issue with import time side effect on Django >= 1.7.

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* Added docs and set up Read The Docs project:

https://django-constance.readthedocs.io/

* Set up Transifex project for easier translations:

https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/django-constance

* Added autofill feature for the database backend cache which is enabled
by default.

* Added Django>=1.7 migrations and moved South migrations to own folder.
Please upgrade to South>=1.0 to use the new South migration location.

For Django 1.7 users that means running the following to fake the migration::

django-admin.py migrate database --fake

* Added consistency check when saving config values in the admin to prevent
accidentally overwriting other users' changes.

* Fixed issue with South migration that would break on MySQL.

* Fix compatibility with Django 1.6 and 1.7 and current master (to be 1.8).

* Fixed clearing database cache en masse by applying prefix correctly.

* Fixed a few translation related issues.

* Switched to tox as test script.

* Fixed a few minor cosmetic frontend issues
(e.g. padding in admin table header).

* Deprecated a few old settings:

============================== ===================================
deprecated replacement
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``CONSTANCE_CONNECTION_CLASS`` ``CONSTANCE_REDIS_CONNECTION_CLASS``
``CONSTANCE_CONNECTION`` ``CONSTANCE_REDIS_CONNECTION``
``CONSTANCE_PREFIX`` ``CONSTANCE_REDIS_PREFIX``
============================== ===================================

* The undocumented feature to use an environment variable called
``CONSTANCE_SETTINGS_MODULE`` to define which module to load
settings from has been removed.

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* Added Python 3 support. Supported versions: 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3.
For Python 3.x the use of Django > 1.5.x is required.

* Fixed a serious issue with ordering in the admin when using the database
backend. Thanks, Bouke Haarsma.

* Switch to django-discover-runner as test runner to be able to run on
Python 3.

* Fixed an issue with refering to static files in the admin interface
when using Django < 1.4.

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* Fixed compatibility with Django 1.5's swappable model backends.

* Converted the ``key`` field of the database backend to use a ``CharField``
with uniqueness instead of just ``TextField``.

For South users we provide a migration for that change. First you
have to "fake" the initial migration we've also added to this release::

django-admin.py migrate database --fake 0001

After that you can run the rest of the migrations::

django-admin.py migrate database

* Fixed compatibility with Django>1.4's way of refering to static files in
the admin.

* Added ability to add custom authorization checks via the new
``CONSTANCE_SUPERUSER_ONLY`` setting.

* Added Polish translation. Thanks, Janusz Harkot.

* Allow ``CONSTANCE_REDIS_CONNECTION`` being an URL instead of a dict.

* Added ``CONSTANCE_DATABASE_PREFIX`` setting allow setting a key prefix.

* Switched test runner to use django-nose.